Pope Benedict XVI Quotes

This Catholic thing, I think what it does is it makes a place for mystery in a person. And even when the faith goes away, there's that space where you crave something bigger than yourself. For me, that's kind of where art came in, after that.

Life is full of awe and grace and truth, mystery and wonder. I live in that atmosphere.

The older we become, the more difficult it is to fill our hearts with wonder. Only God is big enough to keep filling us with wonder.

God seeks us where we are, not so that we stay there, but so that we may come to be where He is, so that we may get beyond ourselves.

God is found in this Life ... to wait for another is folly.

God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.

The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.

To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.

For me, music has been, in a sense, my religion, and it is what brings me closest to God or truth or whatever you want to call it.

Divinity. That's what I'm trying to get at, in everything I write.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

Our Savior's birth is the ultimate reminder that miracles happen and often when we don't expect them.

I have the feeling that behind a certain dimension we cannot anymore see, understand, feel, smell, hear - nothing. What people are calling God I am not defining, but I am a 'possibilitiest.'

I even agree that the concept of god helps some people lead better lives. That does happen. Don't ever forget it. I just think there are better ways to help people lead better lives.

I think there's probably a God-shaped hole in everybody's being. Even if God only exists in people's minds, He's still a force.

Mr. Langdon, I did not ask if you believe what man says about God. I asked if you believed in God. There is a difference. Holy scripture is stories...legends and history of man's quest to understand his own need for meaning. I am not asking you to pass judgment on literature. I am asking if you believe in God. When you lie out under the stars, do you sense the divine? Do you feel in your gut that you are staring up at the work of God's hands?

I wouldn't even like to begin to define God - I have absolutely no idea. But what I feel, and what touches me, is a great spiritual power, which I don't even want to name. If I had to, I would say God, because I don't know any other.

The life of grace is not an effort on our part to achieve a goal we set ourselves. It is a continually renewed attempt simply to believe that someone else has done all the achieving that is needed and to live in relationship with that person, whether we achieve or not. If that doesn't seem like much to you, you're right: it isn't. And, as a matter of fact, the life of grace is even less than that. It's not even our life at all, but the life of that Someone Else rising like a tide in the ruins of our death.

As Joel Goldsmith said, in the presence of the God realized, the laws of the material world do not apply. That's why people who live steadfastly at a place of God-consciousness can perform miracles. They can create. They can make virtually anything happen. From the space in-between, that last inch is the critical inch you have to take to reach that place. Every once in a while, I get to that place of God-consciousness, and miracles do happen.

Whoever no longer finds greatness in God no longer finds it anywhere--he must either deny it or create it.

My happiness came from learning my purpose, which is to be honest and to share things that normal people probably wouldn't share, in an effort to support and uplift other women. I love that my journey gives other women hope, letting them see how far God can bring a soul.